Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 620 Playing Polo

Su Dingfang is here.

However, Cheng Yaojin and the others ignored him at all, as if they had never seen him at all.

He still only cares about eating his own roasted whole lamb, and it looks delicious, especially delicious.

Su Dingfang frowned slightly, and then chuckled: "I just want to tell you that we will definitely win the match the day after tomorrow."

Cheng Yaojin and others still ignored him, while Su Dingfang was ignored.

"Hmph, we will definitely win the polo match tomorrow."

After finishing speaking, Su Dingfang turned and left angrily. Su Lin and Su Feng looked back at the whole lamb that was being roasted, swallowed a mouthful of spit, and left reluctantly.

As soon as they left, Cheng Yaojin immediately cursed: "Hey, who do you really think you are to show off your power in front of me? If it wasn't for the sake of the Holy Majesty, I would have chopped him off with an ax..."

Cheng Yaojin was very angry, but the expressions of Cheng Chumo and others changed slightly.

"We're going to play polo tomorrow, what if we lose?"

Polo is a very popular competitive game in the Tang Dynasty. It can be said that it is the predecessor of Cuju. During the game, players ride on horseback, hold a club in their hands, keep grabbing the ball, and swing the ball into the The opponent's goal is considered a victory.

The Cuju that evolved later was kicked into the romantic eye, and the football that later became a goal.

People like Cheng Chumo still like to play polo on weekdays, but their skills are a bit average.

Cheng Yaojin glanced at his son and scolded: "If you lose, you lose. There is nothing to be afraid of. Just win the mock battle."

Although winning or losing polo is also very important, the battle is the most important thing. Polo is just a singing game for this year's autumn hunting, a bit similar to cheerleading or something.

It is purely to make everyone happy, and the rest is crucial.

And according to the itinerary of the entire autumn hunting, tomorrow morning will be a polo competition, several teams will take turns against the enemy to decide the winner. In the afternoon, everyone will hunt in the pasture. It's time for a confrontation, and the day after tomorrow, we will leave for Beijing.

The entire trip was not very long, but it was very necessary for Datang.

Li Shimin needs to know the strength of his own army, and also needs to know the abilities of those powerful children in Datang.

As the night deepened, the royal ranch finally quieted down.

A group of patrol soldiers walked around. After nightfall, the sky became colder and colder.

The next morning, the weather was not good. In fact, people like Li Chunfeng had already calculated the weather. They knew that there would be no wind and rain in the past few days, so they decided on these days.

Li Chunfeng and the others are still responsible for a lot of things, such as the weather, such as astrology, and even Li Shimin can make decisions about when to have sex.

Royal matters, big or small.

The weather was fine, and at the hour of the hour, many people had already gathered on the Royal Ranch, especially the polo teams. There were about a dozen of these teams, and they were all formed by the dignitaries of Chang'an City. They usually competed with each other. Today No exception.

After Li Shimin came, the officials saluted, Li Shimin nodded: "Let's start."

As soon as it started, several teams drew lots to decide the order of the opponents, etc. Qin Huaiyu and Cheng Chumo were lucky, they didn't draw Su Lin and the others, they drew a weaker one.

So this first match was naturally won.

Qin Tian and Cheng Yaojin stood aside and watched, and they were relieved. In fact, it seemed that they were playing polo, but it was more about training horse riding skills. It won't be easy if you play well.

The emergence of any competitive event actually has certain reasons and rules.

During the Tang Dynasty, polo was popular, mainly because the Tang people were martial arts during this period, and fighting on horseback was a common thing. Over time, it evolved from playing polo to training equestrian skills.

In the Song Dynasty, Cuju was very popular. Cuju made people get off their horses and began to use people to play football on the ground. This is because, in the Song Dynasty, there were not many people who were good at riding horses, and they had no natural horse ranch. , It's not easy to raise horses, many of them can't afford to ride a horse, let alone play polo.

It is not surprising that it has evolved into Cuju in this way.

Cheng Chumo and others were very proud of winning a round, but at the same time, Su Lin and the others also won a round, and they won quickly, but the key point is that their opponents are very strong.

After Qin Tian saw this situation, he was also very shocked, because he saw the mount of Su Lin and others. It was a horse with astonishing speed and explosive power. The only fine horse chosen.

Such a horse is not easy to find or meet. It is not easy for Su Dingfang to be able to buy it.

Qin Tian thought in his heart, at this time, the second round of competition will begin, Cheng Chumo and the others are unlucky to run into Su Lin.

When the two sides confronted each other, Su Lin laughed while riding on the horse: "I will make it ugly for you to lose."

Facing Su Lin's provocation, Qin Huaiyu also chuckled: "Then we'll have to see it."

Both sides didn't say much, and started the competition directly.

After the competition started, Cheng Yaojin was very nervous and kept shouting, while Su Dingfang stood on the other side of Li Shimin, but showed a slight smile. They are sure to win in such things.

Li Shimin didn't show favoritism at all, he just watched. Of course, the most important thing was to look at the fast horse Su Lin and the others rode. It is entirely possible to build an invincible cavalry.

After watching this for a while, Li Shimin suddenly asked: "Su Aiqing, where did you get the horse that your son is sitting on?"

Hearing this, Su Dingfang was a little nervous, but he still responded quickly: "Your Majesty, this horse was purchased from a merchant in the Western Regions. It seems to be a horse from one of the countries in the Western Regions called Dawan."

Dawan Kingdom is rich in horses, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used to pay a lot of money to buy Dawan Kingdom's hard-blooded BMWs, but what Li Shimin did not expect was that Dawan Kingdom actually had such faster horses besides sweat-blooded BMWs.

"Su Aiqing, what's the name of this horse?"

"This horse is called Ben Lei Horse, a thousand gold horse."

Tang people love horses, and because of frequent wars, the price of horses is generally very high, but a thousand gold horses, to be honest, are a bit too high.

However, looking at the speed of the galloping thunder horse, Li Shimin still nodded. He felt that such a horse was worth the price.

Li Shimin didn't ask any more questions, and Su Dingfang finally breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that Li Shimin would suddenly steal his love and take Ben Leima as his own.

(End of this chapter)